No, it's much older than that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lions%27_Commentary_on_UNIX_6th_Edition,_with_Source_Code
-rob
On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 7:23 AM, Konstantin Khomoutov <
flatw...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Apr 2017 09:04:39 -0500
> Sam Whited wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Apr
On Mon, 10 Apr 2017 09:04:39 -0500
Sam Whited wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 5:49 PM, Rob Pike wrote:
> > To answer your question about creat, ken named it. Why does no one
> > ask about aretu?
>
> I'll bite: what's up with aretu?
Jugding from Rob's involvement with Plan 9, I googled and foun
On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 5:49 PM, Rob Pike wrote:
> To answer your question about creat, ken named it. Why does no one ask about
> aretu?
I'll bite: what's up with aretu?
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To answer your question about creat, ken named it. Why does no one ask
about aretu?
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On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 3:48 PM, Rob Pike wrote:
> It was 6, a holdover from FORTRAN because it used (in effect) the
> FORTRAN linker. That number was just the number that of initial bytes that
> had to be
It was 6, a holdover from FORTRAN because it used (in effect) the
FORTRAN linker. That number was just the number that of initial bytes that
had to be unique. x12345 and x123456 were the same identifier. Case might
be ignored too.
-rob
On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 1:43 PM, Tom Limoncelli wrote:
>
Did the limit in C used to be 5 characters? That would explain "creat()".
(That's a bit of trivia I've always wondered about)
Tom
On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 9:16 AM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 3:57 AM, Jan Mercl <0xj...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 12:23 PM w
On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 3:57 AM, Jan Mercl <0xj...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 12:23 PM wrote:
>
>> But i don't find such specification for Golang.Is there any limit on the
>> length of an identifier in Golang?
>
> The lack of a specified limit implies no limit other than resources
>
On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 12:23 PM wrote:
> But i don't find such specification for Golang.Is there any limit on the
length of an identifier in Golang?
The lack of a specified limit implies no limit other than resources
available to the compiler and/or the program.
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For C language, ANSI C recognizes only the first 32 characters in a name.
But i don't find such specification for Golang.
Is there any limit on the length of an identifier in Golang?
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